Sediment characterization projects

• 2011: Project Extreme floods of the river Rhine during the last 5000 years. Partner: Utrecht University, department of Physical Geography (linked to PhD project of Willem Toonen).

• 2010: Project Characterization of plaggen soils near Veldhoven-Zilverackers (the Netherlands) by thermo-gravimetric and laser-diffraction particle size analysis. Partner: GEO-LOGICAL, Delft, the Netherlands.

• 2010: Project Characterization of the Dutch shallow subsurface by laser-diffraction particle size analysis. Partner: NITG-TNO (Geological Survey of the Netherlands), Utrecht, the Netherlands.

• 2009: Project Evaluation of the Sympatec HELOS KR laser-diffraction particle sizer. Partner: Sympatec GmbH, System-Partikel-Technik, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.

Svalbard project

• 2007-present: NPI-VU project Holocene sedimentation processes in an Arctic fjord system: Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Partners: Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway; Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, the Netherlands.

China projects

• 2007-2010: KNAW-CAS funded project Dust transport and desertification in China. Partners: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Beijing, China; Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, the Netherlands.

• 2004-2007: KNAW-MOST funded project Diversity of environmental (climatic) conditions in China since the last glacial period. Partner: School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

North Atlantic projects

• 2001-2004: NWO-ALW funded project Episodic sea-ice cover in the North Atlantic Ocean: implications for reconstruction of Late Quaternary climate changes.

• 1999-2001: NWO-ALW funded CLIVARNET project Natural climate variability from late Glacial and late Holocene marine records offshore SE Greenland and on Reykjanes Ridge.